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January 21, 2022

At the Movies: ‘Who We Are' offers a searing view of racism in US

By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer

“If you've ever owned a slave, please raise your hand,” Jeffery Robinson asks a live audience at the beginning of “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America,” a searing documentary based on a lecture he's spent a decade perfecting.

Obviously, nobody in the auditorium raises a hand. This is 2018 New York City! But the few seconds that follow the question are probably the only chance these audience members have to put some distance between themselves and the country's sorry record of racial oppression. No, explains Robinson, slavery may not be our fault. But it is “our shared history.”


 
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